Michael Stapelberg’s Debian Blog

let’s disable pdiffs already! (2013-11-27)

On EVERY Debian installation I have ever done in the last few
years, without any exceptions, I have turned off pdiffs. Even on all the
oddball cases (Raspberry Pi, account on a remote machine, …) where I don’t run
my install-configs script, I have ended up turning off pdiffs eventually,
because it is just so insanely slow on modern internet connections. And by
modern I mean even the DSL link my parents’ place has since 14 years.